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1Involuntary treatment — (also referred to by proponents as assisted treatment and by critics as forced drugging) refers to medical treatment undertaken without a person s consent. In almost all circumstances, involuntary treatment refers to psychiatric treatment… …
2Involuntary commitment — For involuntary treatment in non hospital settings, see involuntary treatment. Involuntary commitment or civil commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court ordered into treatment in a… …
3American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization — The American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization (AAAIMH) was an organization founded in 1970 by Dr. Thomas Szasz, George Alexander, and Erving Goffman for the purpose of abolishing involuntary psychiatric… …
45150 (Involuntary psychiatric hold) — Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code (specifically, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act or LPS ) which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that …
5Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union — Soviet Union …
6Thomas Szasz — Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a… …
7Larisa Arap — [ right|200px|thumb|Larisa Arap, 2007 Alexander Podrabinek. We would like to have rights, Novaya Gaseta, 02.08.2007. in Russian: Александр Подрабинек Хотелось бы иметь права.http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2007/58/16.html] ] Larisa Arap ( ru.… …
8Anti-psychiatry — See also: Biopsychiatry controversy Anti psychiatry refers to a post 1960s configuration of groups and theoretical constructs hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry. Its igniting influences were Michel Foucault …
9Schizophrenia — MeshName = Schizophrenia MeshNumber = F03.700.750 Schizophrenia (pron en|ˌskɪtsəˈfriːniə), from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, to split ) and phrēn , phren (φρήν, φρεν , mind ) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder… …
10Joyce Patricia Brown — (perhaps better known as Billie Boggs) was a mentally ill homeless person who defeated New York City s efforts to force her into a psychiatric treatment program. Her case set legal precedents for forced psychiatric care which have hamstrung… …
